How to Install Light Switch for Beginners: FREE Video Course

In this video course students will learn all about how to install a light switch. The light switch that will be installed will actually before a bathroom exhaust fan but an exhaust fan uses the same standard type of light switch for say a bathroom light.

This light switch I call a standard light switch & the real name is called a single pole light switch in that the switch is just going to be operating one light fixture & the light fixture will only be able to operate with one light switch.

If you were going to operate a light fixture at two light switch locations say at both ends of a hallway for instance, then those types of light switches are called 3-way light switches & you have to use a different type of light switch. In this case we will only be installing a standard style light switch & this type of single pole standard light switch is really the easiest type of light switch to install!

What a perfect way to start learning how to work on electrical would be to install a single pole standard light switch. In this case there is an existing damaged light switch that VideoJoe wants to replace even though the existing light/wall switch still works.

Viewers will then be able to learn how to remove an existing single pole wall/light switch as well as learning how to install a new wall/light switch to replace the defective one. This same technique will of course work if the existing light switch is defective &/or broken, or the paddle on the switch is not clicking very well because it might be really old or maybe the existing light switch is an old style toggle switch needing to be upgraded to a new style paddle type wall/light switch.

Viewers will learn that they can install a light switch even if they thought they knew nothing about working on electrical so why try.